Welcome to our Psychology in Literature and Film class Archetype stories.
Jung believed that the psychologically therapeutic power of archetypes was to help the suffering individual connect himself to the whole of humanity and their problems. It was his contention that the knowledge of universality would allow people to develop ways of dealing with everyday life and to create the sense of hope for coping in the world.
Here we are building a book of archetype stories and illustrations that will help us understand these forms.
Each story, we hope, illuminates the essential characteristics of the archetype. We have tried to not describe the image. Instead we have created narratives that explain, through the events of the story, what we understand about these basic psychological forms or ideas.
Click on the links to the left to connect to the page of each archetype.
Jung believed that the psychologically therapeutic power of archetypes was to help the suffering individual connect himself to the whole of humanity and their problems. It was his contention that the knowledge of universality would allow people to develop ways of dealing with everyday life and to create the sense of hope for coping in the world.
Here we are building a book of archetype stories and illustrations that will help us understand these forms.
Each story, we hope, illuminates the essential characteristics of the archetype. We have tried to not describe the image. Instead we have created narratives that explain, through the events of the story, what we understand about these basic psychological forms or ideas.
Click on the links to the left to connect to the page of each archetype.
Dust Pillar of the Carina Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (U. California, Berkeley) et al., and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)